Monument Details

Airfield (A-10) Memorial -50th Fighter Group

Details:

An eastern roadside pull-out of the D89. Marker

A stone-floored and walled space enclosed from the road by a chain and flanked by two flagpoles. A grey vertical slab of rock with gold lettering bears the commemoration of the US airfield and those that built and flew from it.

Monument Text:

EN MEMOIRE

DE CEUX QUI ONT DONNE LEUR VIE

POUR LA LIBERTE

THE 50TH FIGHTER GROUP

OF NINTH US AIR FORCE

FLEW FROM

THIS ADVANCED LANDING GROUND

BUILT BY THE 826 TH AIR ENGRS BATTALION

25.06 TO 16.08.1944

IN RESPECTFUL MEMORY OF THOSE

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR LIBERTY

CATZ-LES VEYS ST PELLERIN

ST HILAIRE_BREVANDS

06.06.1989

Commemorates:

Units:

50th Fighter Group

826th Air Engineer Battalion

9th Air Force

United States Air Force

Wars:

WWII

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